A Great Harvest

The system announcement that repeated three times finally ended.

The main city gate, which had been closed for over an hour, slowly opened once more.

Atop the towering city walls, the voice of Guard Commander Karl rang out again.

As for the content, it was nothing more than a few closing remarks and words of thanks to all participating players.

No one was really listening anyway.

All the players who held out until the very last moment only cared about one thing at this point—the chest rewards that the system had previously mentioned.

If it weren’t for the rewards, they wouldn’t have bothered attending this event in the first place.

Chen Zixuan was no exception.

Although he had reaped considerable rewards from this event, directly leveling up twice, from level 6 to level 8—already a huge gain for him—

But who would say no to a free chest? Who wouldn’t want to get their hands on those “Ding Ding” chests?

And what’s more, he took the first place in kill points—it was the number one reward chest!

Tsk, tsk. This was a 26,000-plus points chest. If he didn’t get at least one or two orange legendary weapons from it, wouldn’t that be a bit too much?

Even if there was no legendary item, a level 10 purple epic set would still be acceptable.

He had just reached level 8 now—two more levels to 10—yet the set he was wearing was still only level 5 equipment.

He wasn’t too anxious at the moment, but preparing in advance had always been Chen Zixuan’s way of doing things.

As these thoughts ran through his mind, the system assistant’s voice suddenly sounded in his head.

“System alert: Congratulations, you have received a [Purple Epic Master’s Chest]!”

“Is it just epic?”

On hearing the system prompt, Chen Zixuan felt a twinge of disappointment.

But thinking about it, maybe the other players only got the common-level chests.

Without a comparison, there was no hurt.

With this in mind, Chen Zixuan felt considerably better.

Next, he opened his inventory and indeed saw a purple-glowing chest sitting in his bag slot, spilling out an aura of supreme luck.

It was time to prove his lineage!

Chen Zixuan took a deep breath and opened the chest.

With a burst of dazzling light, a purple-glowing interface popped up in front of the silver-haired girl.

“System alert: You have received [‘Rose Maid’s White Veil’ Design Drawing] (Purple)!”

“System alert: You have received [‘Rose Maid’s White Apron’ Design Drawing] (Purple)!”

“System alert: You have received [‘Rose Maid’s Sleeves’ Design Drawing] (Purple)!”

“System alert: You have received [‘Rose Maid’s Thigh-high Stockings’ Design Drawing] (Purple)!”

“System alert: You have received [‘Rose Maid’s Round-toed Leather Shoes’ Design Drawing] (Purple)!”

“System alert: You have received [‘Rose Maid’s Silver Dinner Knife’ Design Drawing] (Purple)!”

“System alert: You have received [‘Hunter’s Mark’ Skill Book] (Sharpshooter class exclusive)!”

“System alert: You have received [‘Backstab’ Skill Book] (Assassin class exclusive)!”

“System alert: You have received [‘Ice Spear Technique’ Skill Book] (Mage class exclusive)!”

“System alert: You have received [Mid-grade Health Potion] x5!”

“System alert: You have received [Mid-grade Mana Potion] x5!”

“……”

Bingo!

Alright! I hit the jackpot!

Looking at the sea of purple and blue, Chen Zixuan felt a surge of delight.

All epic-quality!

At worst, they were rare—there wasn’t even a single white common!

But his joy only lasted for a few seconds before the silver-haired girl’s expression fell.

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“What is a design drawing? Don’t tell me it’s not ready-made—I actually have to craft them myself?”

Also, the more he looked at this set, the more it seemed like… a maid outfit?

That’s right—even though the names didn’t include the word “maid,” from the concept art shown in the design drawings…

A spotless gauze dress, a black apron, ruffled floral headpiece with a silver bell, pure white suspender thigh-highs, black round-toed little leather shoes…

Frankly, it did look pretty alluring…

But isn’t this basically just a damn maid costume?!

It was like a bucket of icy water dumped directly on his head—the joy in Chen Zixuan’s heart was slashed by half.

Not wearing it! No way!

He’d rather die than, as a true blue straight male, wear a maid outfit with thigh-highs to please the visual senses of other males. He’d prefer someone just kill him outright.

It was only a purple epic set, after all.

Not even an orange legendary—certainly not worth Chen Zixuan selling out his dignity for.

Still, out of curiosity and maybe a little appreciation, he clicked to view the detailed info on the set.

[Minimum Equip Level: 15]

[Required Skill: Forging (Master Rank)]

Now Chen Zixuan understood why the chest was called a [Purple Epic Master’s Chest].

To craft the equipment found within, you needed at least a master-level forge smith.

Previously, because he had slain the Goblin Champion, the system awarded him the [Advanced Forging] skill.

In other words, Cecilia’s current subclass was only at “Apprentice” in forging.

Still an entire tier away from master rank.

Subclass levels were: Beginner, novice, apprentice, master, grandmaster, and Legendary—six in total.

[Apprentice Blacksmith]: This player can forge or enhance rare-rank equipment; forging white gear +20% success rate; forging blue gear +15% success rate.

By this logic, a beginner blacksmith could only enhance or repair common white gear, not forge at all.

A novice could forge white gear as long as they had blueprints.

An apprentice could forge rare (blue) gear.

As for purple epic gear, only master blacksmiths could craft it.

Currently, Chen Zixuan was only an apprentice blacksmith—even if he had all the materials, he couldn’t make the [Rose Maid’s Set].

Besides, even if he could, he wasn’t interested at all.

A white thigh-high maid outfit—if only Gu Yanxi could wear it, that would be great…

Yuewu’s figure was certainly more ‘firey’, so it probably wouldn’t suit her, but… actually, it might look nice too…

While his mind wandered, Chen Zixuan went over the haul from the chest.

A level 15 purple set, though unfortunately just design drawings—and for the last thing he wanted, a maid outfit.

Strike that from the list.

Three skill books, for Sharpshooter, assassin, and Mage—each blue rare quality, which could fetch a decent price.

Dawn’s Light seemed a little more generous than Yuewu, so he decided to sell them to Dawn’s Light this time.

Next were 10 potions, 5 health, 5 mana, much stronger than newbie potions.

Might just be lifesavers—he’d keep those for himself.

Ten blue gems and five purple ones, same kind of material as the ones given by the world boss earlier.

Might be useful someday—he’d tuck them away for future use.

And 500 gold coins, equivalent to 100,000 cash.

Leaving aside the entire set of maid outfit blueprints, he could call this event an absolute windfall.

Unless something else cropped up…

Even though the event was over, Chen Zixuan still felt a bit uneasy.

After all, Sindigo’s reaction upon death had been downright terrifying, giving him a lingering sense of foreboding.

Let’s hope it’s just my imagination…

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